Fred and Will lived in a village and were best friends. However, soon Will’s family moved to a big city. The boys were very sad to be separated from each other. As time passed, the boys grew up. Fred took care of his father’s farm. Will changed jobs often, travelled to big cities and faced […]
One day, Bill and Ben, two brothers, were playing near a pond. Sadly, their ball fell into the pond. Suddenly, the ball bounced out of the pond and hit Ben on the shoulder. Ben shouted loudly, “Ouch! My shoulder!” Bill looked at the strange ball and said, “How did the ball come out itself?” The
‘I will not talk to anyone,’ thought Angelina, the little mermaid angrily. ‘Nobody loves me. They keep scolding me!’ Angelina swam angrily away from home. She did not realise that she had come a long way from home. It was getting dark. Angelina was tired. She wanted to go home now. “Where am I?” she
One day, Frank was playing with his old neighbour, Mr. Baker’s pets. Mr. Baker was busy reading a newspaper on a chair near by. As he grew old, Mr. Baker would often forget things. That day, he left the stove burning in his kitchen. As Frank played, he saw flames coming from Mr. Baker’s kitchen.
Tom was a poor boy. He gathered firewood from the forest and sold it in the market. One day, as Tom walked into the forest, he saw a lady in a pink dress. She sat under a tree and cried. Tom was a kind boy. He quickly went up to the lady and asked, “Why
Daisy was a naughty nymph. She was always troubling others. ‘I will put a pinecone on Miss Eldred’s chair today. It will be fun to see my teacher try and sit on that,’ thought Daisy, mischievously. She did just that before the class started. “Come here, Daisy,” called out Miss Eldred from inside the classroom.
“How do I put these together?” said the puzzled giant dragon over the puzzle pieces. “This goes here and this goes there. But where do these pieces go?” he frowned over the remaining parts of the puzzle. It was his 10th birthday yesterday and he had bought this puzzle-set with his present money. He did
Barona, the little elf, was lonely. Nobody played with him. He didn’t know the reason. Barona called out to fairies, angels, unicorns and even the ugly goblins to play with him but they said, “Not now. Later.” “Please be my friend.” “Do you want to see my toys?” he said, but none listened. They were
The angels looked curiously. They could see the snow castle at the top of the clouds but were too scared to go there. “But it was not there yesterday!” said Clara to her friends. Sofie, Sana and Petronella–all nodded in agreement. “I didn’t see it, too,” said Sofie. “But where did it come from then?”
Annabella was a lonely fairy. She was beautiful, noble and gentle. She sang in the softest of voices and every time she sang, the birds, the animals, the plants, the trees and even the wind stopped to hear her song! She was perfect, just for one thing! ‘I will not go out in the sun!
Antti, Mark, Bethlehem and Rachel were best friends. They were away from one another only when they went home to sleep. The entire unicorn forest knew about them. One day, a shy unicorn Henry asked Antti, “Can I play with you?” Antti said, “No, go away! No one else can be our friend.” Henry walked
Baby Saara did not like Fairy School. She did not like Mother Melody, the supreme fairy. Mother Melody always said, “Saara, you must try to remember all your spells! Otherwise, you will get in trouble.” Saara thought, ‘I know all of them…or maybe kind of!’ Today, she was feeling brave. ‘I’ll go into the side
Sam never did his maths homework. At home, his father was too busy to help him. So, most days, he would end up going to school without doing the homework and being severely scolded by the teacher. One day, Sam was exploring his grandpa’s attic when he found something interesting. It was a pencil with
In the Benwen School of Sorcery, Martha was the worst student. However, Martha had one talent. She could understand the language of the crows. One day, Martha sat in the room all alone trying to memorise a spell, when a crow cawed from afar. Martha heard the crow say something terrifying, so she ran to
Rory and Luke lived near a lake in the forest. Their parents had warned them never to cross the lake. One day, the children decided to cross it. As they stepped on the wet tufts of grass on the other side, a strange sense of enchantment engulfed them. The children followed a path and soon